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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin tied a key onto a kite during a thunderstorm. Doing this he proved static electricity and lighting are the same thing -
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin tied a key onto a kite during a storm to prove static electricity and lighting are the same thing -
Thomas Davenport
Thomas Davenport invented the electric motor. -
Sir William Robert Grove
Sir Thomas Robert Grove developed the first fuel cell. A fuel cell is a device that produces electric energy by combining hydrogen and oxygen. -
Samuel Morse
Samuel Morse invented the telegraph, a device that let others communicate with each other over long distance. -
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison invented the first incandescent light bulb. It could last 40 hours without burning out. -
William Stanley Jr.
William Stanley Jr. introduced the coil transformer and alternating current electrical system -
Charles Brush
Charles Brush built the first ever wind turbine to generate electricity, it was built in Cleveland, Ohio. -
Henri Becquerel
Henri Becquerel observed the production of energy from the sun. He experimented with an electromagnet cell, he discovered solar power. -
Piero Ginori Conti
Piero Ginori Conti invented the firt ever geothermal electric power plant. -
Nuclear Power plant
On December 20, 1951 16 the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity was built in Idaho.
